Just-In: Okorodudu: Group Pays Hospital Bill For Release Of Corpse

A group, Family United By Sports,has reportedly paid the N600,000 outstanding hospital bill to ensure the release of the corpse of former Olympic boxing medalist, Jerry Okorodudu.

The hospital had reportedly said it would not release the corpse of the Olympic bronze medalist until the outstanding hospital bill is paid.

According to a source, Okorodudu was scheduled to undergo an operation in the hospital before he died.

The operation was to have been carried out last week Saturday but for paucity of fund.

The Family United By Sports, made up of several sports personalities, including Okorodudu himself, had according to an insider been trying to raise funds for the operation.

However as at the time he died, the group, headed by Godwin Enakhena, could not come up with the sum demanded for the operation, which was for the amputation of his leg as a result of acute diabetes.

But the raise funds was up to the N600,000 outstanding hospital bill in contention

Thus, the money has been quickly released to the hospital in the early hours of  today to enable the family, led by the wife, Adenike, to take the corpse away for burial.